engagèrent
\ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɛʁ\
The verdict
“engagèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #65,125 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,125
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de engager.
Corpus desk
Index FR-engagerent · engagèrent · French
engagèrent · rank #65,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,125
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enfances
Nearest frequency peer: enfances (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « engagèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- endiablée
endiablée
34,879 corpus weight
- endocrinolo…
endocrinologie
34,878 corpus weight
- enfances
enfances
34,877 corpus weight
- engagèrent
engagèrent
34,876 corpus weight
- engraisseme…
engraissement
34,875 corpus weight
- enluminure
enluminure
34,874 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « engagèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engagèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « engagèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
engagèrent is uncommon French at frequency #65,125 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de engager.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for engagèrent, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is engagèrent, spelled E-N-G-A-G-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de engager.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how engagèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Profitant d’une accalmie météorologique, Aldo et Alvaro s’engagèrent dans la ruelle jusqu’à la porte semi-blindée des cuisines du Requin Chagrin qu’ils dédaignèrent.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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